mordorswiss

Official YouTube Channel of the Swiss Mordor, including rare songs and side-projects.

Mordor was founded in 1990 and borrowed their name meaning “dark land” from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. With a song like “Dark Throne of Blasphemous Evil”, they are regarded as one of the pioneers of funeral doom metal. However, the full discography shows an attempt to a synthesis of dark music such as extreme metal subgenres (black/death/doom), industrial, noise, experimental music... marked by the intensive use of a slow tempo. 

From the start they have developed a spiritual perspective based first on fantastic literature, occultism and then on esotericism and ancient traditions. Metaphysicist A. K. Coomaraswamy wrote: “Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words”. Sounds may also have their own power to convey myths, ideas and emotions related to a constant quest for gnôsis, even by people not very much skilled in music.